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Don't know if it matters in this case, but Huntington Avenue is State Route 9 so the rules of what they can do might be different. I remember the problems years ago when the State wanted to cut down trees in the median of Route 9 through Brookline to put in guard rails. The Town fought them...

I just can't understand how Boston is strangling itself with all of these new bus lanes on major roadways like Brighton Ave and Columbus Ave that reduce auto travel to a single lane. I love the idea on one hand but in reality the traffic in Boston is horrendous now and reducing lanes is only...

DART did it with their Kinky Sharyo cars: NEW SUPER DART RAIL VEHICLES DEBUT THIS SUMMER WITH ADDED CAPACITY AND IMPROVED ACCESS DART is updating its fleet of 115 light rail vehicles (LRV) by inserting a new, low-floor insert between the existing sections of the vehicle adding seating...

I'm not up there right now but the flooding seems severe in certain places. Was there any problem in the throat area? If there was no flooding after this storm what would it take to actually flood the area? Maybe the flood concern is unfounded?

And Massachusetts bought the Housatonic and the Coltsville Spur for just over $13 Million. A Governor Deval Patrick passenger rail pipe dream since he has a summer home near the line. Easy to throw away money when it's not yours.

I kind of remember that was a Dan Grabauskas thing. I think he saw the color used somewhere in Europe and liked it. Pininfarina and Breda are both Italian companies and that is the connection there. CambridgeSeven came up with the whole color scheme for the entire MBTA system and the original...

With all due respect . . . I don't think you need the world's premier design firm to put a flat windshield and a couple of headlights on the front of a square box. You and I could have done a better job with a box of crayons.

Never understood why Pininfarina even put their name on the Type 8 :giggle:

Don't get too excited. This is what they initially showed as what the Type 9 was going to look like: Far from what we ended up with:

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I know but after seeing what they did on Brighton Avenue, I thought I'd bring up the possibility. Huntington Avenue as it is now is a bit of a operational challenge. At the very least they should eliminate Fenwood and Back-of-the-Hill and build a station in a new median at Mission Park. I was...

So the E Line is being totally rebuilt on Huntington/South Huntington Ave. Upgrade report: https://www.mbta.com/projects/green-line-track-and-intersection-upgrades-2021 The tracks are being rebuilt in place although there have been proposals to run the tracks along the curb as shown below...

I don't know if they can really say it is the world's first DMV service. Wasn't this concept actually tried by JR Hokkaido before or did it never operate? "In April 2007, JR Hokkaido will begin operating DMVs along part of the Kushiro line in eastern Hokkaido."...

Except for the P.S., I was also speaking tongue-in-cheek but I bet there are some hard-core people out there who think it should revert back to its natural state even though it was an unpleasant cesspool :)

Not if you are an operator.

Umm . . . how far back do you want to go? The basin is unnatural. It's a total FAKE. Completely man made. So you want to go back to the natural mud flats of the 1800s? Personally I think it looks and smells a lot better now. P.S. And since this area is not natural and actually man-made...

I can emphatically state that an operator can put the pedal to the metal and the train will max out at 40 mph. Now the speedo and governor may not be perfectly accurate and maybe the train will creep up a couple of mph to 42, but that is rare and the train will eventually slow back down to 40...

I can't give you an exact date but we have recently discussed that due to a hunting issue on the 7s, the Highland Branch speed was reduced from 50 to 40 mph. It was probably done at that time but I can't verify that. I will state that they are presently governed with a top speed of 40 mph and...

Sorry but none of this is true. The current speed limit is 40 mph, not 35, and all of the cars are maxed out at 40 mph. Operators cannot exceed that speed no matter how much they wanted to. And I believe you are talking about the fatal Ter'rese Edmonds (RIP) "micro-sleep" crash? That was in...

So that would mean all of the Greenline cars will have to have their governors changed to 50 mph. I haven't heard anything about raising the speeds on the Riverside line but I know there has been track and signal work done there. Does anyone know anything about this? They haven't run anything...